President Bush is re-elected in 2000.
Bush  asks Mitch Daniels from Indiana
to serve as his
Director of  OMB, the Office of Management and Budget


Early in his presidency, George W Bush downgraded the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the body designated to cope with national emergencies.

Such departments, the reasoning went, are for feeble folk looking for government handouts (and that often meant blacks).

 In the words of Bush's budget director Mitch Daniels in 2001: "Many are concerned that federal disaster assistance may have evolved into an oversized entitlement programme . . . expectations of when the federal government should be involved, and the degree of involvement, may have ballooned beyond what is an appropriate level."
--New Statesman, a British publication

Mitch Daniels is now running for Governor of Indiana.  You may visit his campaign Website, which reports: "Mitch made a significant personal and financial sacrifice when he answered the call from President George W. Bush to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)."

The OMB Director's salary was $150,000 at the time Mitch made his significant personal and financial sacrifice to answer the call of public service.  He served the public  by setting out to fix the oversized entitlement program that FEMA had become.  Hurricane Katrina makes it clear that Daniels succeeded. 

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REFERENCES
 for the "Executive Salary" pay scale

Table 1. Executive Schedule (ES; also called EX)  Salaries, January 2002
Note: Members of Congress receive an annual salary equivalent to ES Level II, or $150,000.

Sources: U.S. Office of Personnel Management (2001)
http://www.opm.gov/oca/02tables/ex.htm

Reprinted here from:

How Much is Enough?
Setting Pay for Presidential Appointees
Gary Burtless
The Brookings Institution
March 22, 2002
(funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts)
www.appointee.brookings.org

Time marches on. 
As of Jan 2005, the ES scale  (also called EX) has increased, and Mitch would have gotten $162,100

Executive Schedule:
Level I $ 180,100
Level II 162,100
Level III 149,200
Level IV 140,300
Level V 131,400
RATES OF PAY FOR THE EXECUTIVE SCHEDULE (ES)
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2005

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